Game wizards: the epic battle for Dungeons & Dragons

When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success-and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobby...

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Beteilige Person: Peterson, Jon (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Ciulla, Chris Andrew 1975- (ErzählerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [Old Saybrook, Connecticut] Tantor Media, Inc. 2022
Ausgabe:[First edition].
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Zusammenfassung:When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success-and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson-a noted authority on role-playing games-explains how D & D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D & D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened
Beschreibung:Online resource; title from title details screen (O'Reilly, viewed May 3, 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (1 audio file (13 hr., 38 min.))
ISBN:9781666193312
1666193313